Yana is a Senior Product Manager at IFTTT, where she leads user engagement. Before joining IFTTT, she worked on disrupting manufacturing with digital production at Carbon and tackled free knowledge creation on Wikipedia.

Yana is frequently invited to speak about tech policy and recently gave talks at the UN Internet Governance Forum, the White House Open Policy Workshop (under the Obama administration), the NYU Knowledge Commons Conference, the Yale ISP Innovation Beyond IP Conference, and the Stanford E-Commerce Best Practices Conference.

Yana holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a J.D. from University of Southern California, and an LL.B. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Open source software projects and other collaborative communities are built on the principle that information should be shared and remixed. Some of these projects have grown to have widely recognized names and logos.

The use of robots inevitably changes the equation for how police apply "use of force," a term that is broadly defined by the International Association of Chiefs of Police as the "amount of effort required by police to compel compliance by an unwilling subject."

Hacking of banks and identities is big business. An estimated 17.6 million Americans were subject to identity theft in 2014, mostly through breached bank accounts and credit cards. At this point, bank hackers are probably not looking for biometric data when attacking a bank. But even if it leaks as a by-product of a financial breach, criminals will find ways to abuse biometric data or resell it for further exploitation.

"First of all, there's the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unlawful search and seizure. The problem is, according to Yana Welinder, a nonresidential fellow at Stanford Center for Internet and Society and affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, courts don't know how to handle fingerprints. "Fourth Amendment protection is currently seriously out of touch with [the] latest technology," Welinder said.

"“In this particular case, it's not clear that Snapchat even used face recognition technology in a way that would implicate BIPA,” Yana Welinder, a lawyer and legal fellow with Stanford University, e-mailed. “It's possible that they are simply using face detection technology. If so, that would be similar to what many digital cameras do to identify a face in an image to focus the lens on the face.”"

Yana Welinder from Wikimedia Foundation will join our conversation and present emerging intermediary liability issues for online platforms. In particular, we will discuss thorny issues arising in the context of Wikimedia's activities, where the global, peer-produced nature of Wikipedia can test the limits of the tension between freedom of expression and third-party claims.

Ours is a time of ubiquitous surveillance. Our actions online and in public are routinely monitored, both with and without our consent, using the “smart” devices we’ve embraced as the tools of modern self-expression, connectivity, and convenience. This is the age of the biometrically quantified self, mass governmental telecommunications surveillance, location-aware technologies, marketing analytics, drones, and Big Data.